Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights
John C. Rolfe, Ed.

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[p. xxi]

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XVIII

The statement of Marcus Varro that Gaius Sallustius, the writer of history, was taken in adultery by Annius Milo and was let go only after he had been beaten with thongs and had paid a sum of money 265

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XIX

What Epictetus the philosopher used to say to worthless and vile men, who zealously followed the pursuit of philosophy; and the two words whose remembrance he enjoined as by far the most salutary in all respects 265

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XX

A passage taken from the Symposium of Plato, skilful, harmonious and fitting in its rhythm and structure, which for the sake of practice I have turned into the Latin tongue 269

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XXI

The dates after the founding of Rome and before the second war with Carthage at which distinguished Greeks and Romans flourished 273

Book XVIII

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I

Discussions held by a Stoic philosopher and in opposition by a Peripatetic, with Favorinus as arbiter; and the question at issue was, how far virtue availed in determining a happy life and to what extent happiness was dependent on what are called external circumstances 293

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II

What kind of questions we used to discuss when spending the Saturnalia at Athens; and some amusing sophistries and enigmas 297

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III

What the orator Aeschines, in the speech in which he accused Timarchus of unchastity, said that the Lacedaemonians decided about the praiseworthy suggestion of a most unpraiseworthy man 303

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IV

How Sulpicius Apollinaris made fun of a man who asserted that he alone understood Sallust's histories, by inquiring the meaning of these words in Sallust: incertum, stolidior an vanior 307